Pastor Matt's Podcasts

Pastor Matt's Podcasts

These are sermons delivered weekly from Valley Covenant Community. We hope you enjoy these podcasts as we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and study His word for practical application.

Episodes

Romans 5:12-21 Living by Adam or Jesus? - 10/27/25

October 27, 2025 • 57 mins
It was by one man, Adam that sin entered the world.   It is by the life, death and resurrection of one Man, Jesus, that sinful man may be justified, saved, and redeemed.  We have a choice to live by one or the other.  
This sermon explains this as well as its practical ramifications in everyday life.  
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Romans 5:6-11 The Joy of Salvation - 10/19/25

October 21, 2025 • 47 mins
In this sermon, Paul discusses another benefit to justification by faith: Joy.  This joy surpasses our understanding, over all cirucumstances, from the little things to the big.  If you are needing some encouragement, this is the sermon for you.
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Romans 5:1-5 The Outcomes of Justification - 10/12/25

October 12, 2025 • 49 mins
In this study, we look at the results of being justified by faith alone.  We have peace with God, access to the Father, hope and tribulation.  From tribulation, which we are to embrace, it produces, character and hope.  knowing our justification by faith establishes us firmly in God.  Nothing will move or shake us.  
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Charlie Kirk: Christian Martyr - 10/5/25

October 6, 2025 • 52 mins
In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination, there were numerous commentaries, stories, outbursts, etc. about him and what he represented.  In this sermon, I take a look at a few biblical examples to see what constitutes a Christian Martyr's death and if Kirk was in fact a martyr.
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Romans 4:18-25 Faith in Practice - 9/28/25

September 29, 2025 • 57 mins
In this sermon, we study how Abraham's faith is the same faith that all bleleivers have.  It is the faith in practice that is essential.  To beleive, to have faith, is not something that is "out there" not to be realized, it is something that is tangible, to be apprehended, and to be applied.  Enjoy.
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Romans 4:9-18 Expanding the Blessing of the Promise - 9/21/25

September 22, 2025 • 55 mins
In this sermon, we study the expansion of the blessings of the covenant, from Abraham to his descendants to the spiritual children of Abraham, the church.  We also take a brief look at the world's attempts to keep the Christian in a place of guilt in order to manipulate them.  Enjoy!
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Romans 4:1-8 Faith and Works - 9/14/25

September 16, 2025 • 51 mins
Paul made it very clear in Romans that our justification is by faith alone.  However, James Chapter 2 says that it is not just about faith, it is also about works.  Which is it?  This sermon defines the bibilical meaning behind justification by faith followed by works.  
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Romans 3:19-31 The Unjust becoming Just - 9/7/25

September 8, 2025 • 53 mins
Our understanding of salvation rarely goes beyond our teaching in Sunday School.  However, without a proper understanding of the gospel, we risk limiting our growth in the kingdom.  Enjoy.
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Romans 3:9-20 Preparation for the Gospel - 8/31/25

September 5, 2025 • 45 mins
Far too often the gospel is presented without the need for repentance.  Rather, the gospel is presented as accepting Jesus as something extra in a person's life.  The acceptance of Jesus is the acceptance of life itself.  Therefore, it is essential that the need for the gospel, the need for Jesus be presented.  
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Romans 3:1-8 Unfaithful Objections to God's Judgment - 8/24/25

August 24, 2025 • 42 mins
Paul addressed the Jews in his epistle to the Romans.  He anticipated their objections to the Gospel of Christ to the Gentiles.  Therefore, he stated the objection and emphatically stated the response.  Though the unbeleiving Jew could not justify himself, just like the unbelieving church-goer, in the end he only condemns himself. 
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Romans 2:17-29 Where is Your Confidence? - 8/17/25

August 17, 2025 • 49 mins
In his letter to the Romans, Paul addressed the sins of the Gentiles.  He then addressed the sins of the hypocrisy of the Jews.  Their confidence was in receiving the law, being part of the covenant, the chosen people of God.  However, Paul told them that without faithful adherence to the covenant, their blood and their circumcision didn't mean anything.  
The New Testament Christian has much the same issue today.  That is, he is co...
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Romans 2:1-16 Judgment - 8/10/25

August 10, 2025 • 54 mins
In this sermon, we examine the uncomfortable topic of the rewards in heaven and the wrath in hell.  Paul addressed the Jews, who thought their birthright in the Covenant secured for them a place in heaven; however, Paul blows this theory apart when we tells them in no uncertain terms that God is not partial.  Everyone will be judged by their deeds.  
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Romans 1:22-32 God Releasing the Restraints - 8/3/25

August 3, 2025 • 49 mins
When God gives a people up, or gives a people over to themselves, He does this for redemptive purposes.  God allows the sinners that suppress the truth in unrighteousness to go further into their own sin.  He allows them to feel the consequences by giving them over to themselves, releasing them from His divine restraints.  
Paul lists many sins that are representative of all sins as the people, the culture, spiral downward into deba...
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Romans 1:18-25 The Wrath of God Revealed - 7/27/25

July 27, 2025 • 51 mins
In this study we look at the parallel of what God reveals to man.  Last week we studied God revealing His righteousness to those who believed.  This week we study God revealing His wrath to those who supress the truth in unrighteousness.  God is a God of love, but He is also a God of wrath.

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Romans 1:16-17 The Just Shall Live By Faith - 7/20/25

July 22, 2025 • 47 mins
In this study, we once again look at the gospel of the Book of Romans.  The foundation of the Reformation, "The Just Shall Live By Faith" is here laid out for us.  These two verses are packed with Old Testament language, and are extremely relevant to us today due to the pull of "Universalism" on the faith.  
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Romans 1:8-17 Unity of the Faith - 7/13/25

July 22, 2025 • 42 mins
As we get into our study on Romans, it is important to see just how Romans is the gospel of God.  It is a transition from the gospel of the Old Testament to the explanation of the same gospel in the New Testament.  
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Romans 1:1-7 Introduction - 7/6/25

July 7, 2025 • 59 mins
In this new series, we examine the wealth of content that Paul gives to the Romans in his greeting.  The book of Romans has rightly been called "The Gospel of Romans."  The continuity between the Old Covenant and the New is systematized in this book.  Enjoy.
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Silencing the Enemy Part III Traps of the Enemy - 6/29/25

June 30, 2025 • 52 mins
In this episode we examine the traps that the enemy sets for us. 
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Silencing the Enemy Part II A Frogless Church - 6/22/25

June 30, 2025 • 43 mins
In this second part of the series, "Silencing the Enemy", we examine those who are most susceptible to listening to the enemy.  
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Silencing the Enemy - 6/15/25

June 18, 2025 • 49 mins
Satan bombards Christians with noise.  One of our greatest tasks is to worship God and drown out the noise of the enemy.  This sermon defines the nature of the Christian's responsibility to do just that.
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